Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

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As the U.S. pivots to an era of great power competition, the Pentagon’s research and engineering chief has directed the Defense Science Board (DSB) to study the future of military superiority that moves past modernizing equipment.

Flying at Mach 1.4 and 50,000 ft., the X-59 is designed to produce a sonic “thump” of less than 75 PNLdB, compared with the 105-110-PLdB “double-bang” sonic boom produced by Concorde.

Chinese efforts at developing reusable space launchers have progressed as far as demonstrating control technology in a vertical landing of a small test rig.

NASA has rolled out its Grand Challenge plan to help guide, foster and enable the coming generation of urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles.

Chinese private space launch company Landspace suspects a broken pipe in the terminal-correction attitude-control system caused the failure of its first shot.

BOEING has won a $244.7 million contract to buy long-lead materials to make HARPOON missiles for multiple Foreign Military Sales customers.

The last U.S. Marine Corps squadron operating the Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler will return from its final deployment in early November.

Airbus and British academia are studying the potential of very large satellite communication antennas to be placed in orbit.

Aerospace and defense supplier Heico is buying its way into the silicone manufacturing industry.

Progress to finalize a new rebaselined contract between the development partners for the A400M airlifter looks likely to be delayed into 2019.

Dawn, NASA’s 11-year mission to the asteroid belt, may finally have reached its sunset.

General Atomics Aeronautics Systems is operating two company-owned MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft systems in support of the U.S. Marine Corps in Afghanistan.

The UK’s University of Nottingham is to develop a facility for ground testing of high-speed, high-power electric propulsion systems for aircraft.

Israel’s Elbit Systems is to provide surveillance services to European nations via the European Maritime Safety Agency using its Hermes 900 UAS.

Roscosmos is preparing to resume crew launches to the ISS on Dec. 3 following the conclusion of a probe into last month’s Soyuz MS-10 launch abort.

The U.S. Air Force urgently needs to acquire multiple emitters that emulate a range of advanced surface-to-air missile (SAM) threats.

LATVIA has received STINGER missiles from DENMARK based on a bilateral agreement between the two nations that was signed last year.

The U.S. Navy has awarded JLL-Midnight Sun IFMS, LLC, Kotzebue, Alaska, a $30,408,548 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

Maxar Technologies will decide over the next two months what to do with its geostationary communications satellite manufacturing business.

Aerojet Rocketdyne continued its quiet but steady financial improvement in the third quarter of 2018.

Five potential suppliers have about eight weeks to respond to a draft copy of an RFP for Canada’s $15-19 billion Future Fighter Capability contract.

The last U.S. Marine Corps squadron operating the Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler will return from its final deployment in early November, the service says.

UTC Aerospace Systems has developed the world’s highest resolution indium gallium arsenide near infrared/shortwave infrared camera for the U.S. Navy.

After signing accords to jointly develop a future fighter, French and German officials have reportedly had a falling-out over potential aircraft exports.